“It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Mr Solomon to the bench of the Supreme Court,” Mr Quigley commented. 

“Mr Solomon, who was until recently the coordinator of the Western Australian Bar Association’s continuing professional development program, has a long-standing commitment to legal governance, substantive law, ethics and mastery or practice.” 

Justice Solomon is a member of the Legal Practice Board and has taught advocacy to junior barristers for the Australian Bar Association and the Western Australian Bar Association. He also has extensive experience in pro-bono legal advice to community groups and to legal practitioners before the State Administrative Tribunal. 

The new justice graduated from law at the University of Western Australia with first class honours in 1991 and began working as a solicitor and then as a partner at two major law firms. He was appointed a senior counsel in 2013. 

In his role as senior counsel, Justice Solomon has acted in complex commercial matters that include property matters, insolvency, building and construction. He has conducted matters in all superior courts and in local and international arbitrations where he has acted as both counsel and as an arbitrator. 

Justice Solomon is also an ordained rabbi who holds leadership positions within the Jewish community and established the Beit Midrash of WA in 1993. 

“He is not only an eminently qualified advocate and lawyer, but he has also demonstrated his commitment to public service through his roles in the education and mentoring of his fellow practitioners, membership of various boards and committees, and his advisory and honorary positions in a variety of Jewish educational institutions,” Mr Quigley said of his appointment. 

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“I congratulate Mr Solomon SC on his appointment and wish him well.”